Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850

NOTES

ETYMOLOGY OF "WHITSUNTIDE" AND "MASS"

FOLK LORE

LONG MEG OF WESTMINSTER

A NOTE ON SPELLING.—"SANATORY," "CONNECTION."

Minor Notes

QUERIES

THE STORY OF THE THREE MEN AND THEIR BAG OF MONEY

THE GEOMETRICAL FOOT

Minor Queries

REPLIES

A TREATISE ON EQUIVOCATION

FURTHER NOTES ON THE DERIVATION OF THE WORD "NEWS."

"NEWS," "NOISE," AND "PARLIAMENT."

SHAKSPEARE'S USE OF THE WORD "DELIGHTED."

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES

MISCELLANEOUS

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS

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Perhaps the following Note and Query on the much-disputed origin of the word Whitsunday, as used in our Liturgy, may find a place in your Journal. None of the etymologies of this word at present in vogue is at all satisfactory. They are—

I. White Sunday: and this, either—

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1. Versteran's explanation:—That it is Wied Sunday, i.e. Sacred Sunday (from Saxon, wied, or wihed, a word I do not find in Bosworth's A.-S. Dict.; but so written in Brady's Clovis Calendaria, as below). But why should this day be distinguished as sacred beyond all other Sundays in the year?

2. In Clavis Calendaria, by John Brady (2 vols. 8vo. 1815), I find, vol. i. p. 378., "Other authorities contend," he does not say who those authorities are, "that the original name of this season of the year was Wittentide; or the time of choosing the wits, or wise men, to the Wittenagemote."

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